Jesus said unto him,
It is written again, You shall not test the Lord your God.
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Remigius of Rheims
AD 533
This shows that the Devil lies in wait for Christ’s faithful people even in the sacred places.
The “pinnacle” is the seat of the doctors; for the temple had not a pointed roof like our houses, but was flat on the top after the manner of the country of Palestine, and in the temple were three stories. It should be known that "the pinnacle” was on the floor, and in each story was one pinnacle. Whether then he placed Him on the pinnacle in the first story, or that in the second, or the third, he placed Him whence a fall was possible.
